Easy NZB-downloading on Ubuntu 11.10 with nzbget via free IPv6-only Newsservers

Ubuntu 11.10 (also known as Oneiric Ocelot) has got the NZB-downloader nzbget in its repositories. Combined with IPv6 based on miredo, and the free IPv6-only Newsservers, downloading NZBs is easy and you don't need a newsserver account. Here's the howto:

Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install nzbget miredo

zcat /usr/share/doc/nzbget/examples/nzbget.conf.example.gz > ~/.nzbget

nzbget -s  -o Server1.Host=weathergirl-ipv6.tele2.net 

The above will start the nzbget daemon.

Then, create a NZB, for example via http://binsearch.info/ and download it. Let's say its name is mynzb.nzb

Finally, open another terminal, add the NZB you want to download to nzbget's queue, for example: 

nzbget -A ~/Downloads/mynzb.nzb

Switch back to the 'daemon'-terminal, and you should see the nzgbet daemon downloading your request. It will end up in ~/download/dst/

If it doesn't work, check that your IPv6 is working; make sure you get an output like this:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ping6 -c4 ipv6.google.com

PING ipv6.google.com(ey-in-x63.1e100.net) 56 data bytes

64 bytes from ey-in-x63.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=115 ms

64 bytes from ey-in-x63.1e100.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=25.8 ms

64 bytes from ey-in-x63.1e100.net: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=27.2 ms

64 bytes from ey-in-x63.1e100.net: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=205 ms

--- ipv6.google.com ping statistics ---

4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 25.801/93.545/205.635/74.216 ms

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

Remarks:

• Instead of weathergirl-ipv6.tele2.net, you can use the other IPv6-only accountless newsserver: newszilla6.xs4all.nl
• If you want to use a newsserver that requires an account, use something like "nzbget -s  -o Server1.Host=your.newsserver.com -o Server1.Username=user -o Server1.Password=pass" in the 'daemon'-terminal
• The plain nzbget does not take care of rar and par. However, there's a postprocessing script somewhere in the intall. EDIT: see /usr/share/doc/nzbget/examples/postprocess-example.* 
• If you prefer a more GUI-like NZB-downloader, check out SABnzbd: http://sabnzbd.org/
• Older Ubuntu's haven't got nzbget in the standard repositories. However, there's a PPA: http://ppa.launchpad.net/volkris/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nzbget/

Happy downloading!

Free binary newsserver via Xsnews and IPv6

This is quite incredible: Xsnews offers free access to their binary newsservers over IPv6. I've measured downloads at linespeed (18 Mbps)! It's Xsnews' way to promote IPv6. It works much better than Eweka's and Xs4all's newszilla free IPv6 newsservice.


It's quite easy to get access: fill out your email address on http://www.xsnews.com/ipv6/ipv6_aanvraag.php , and then wait a few minutes for the mail to arrive with all information.
The information will look like

Hostname: reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl
Username: ipv6-12345
Password: aaa12345bb

Fill out that information in SABnzbd (www.sabnzbd.org) and start downloading! This works on Linux and Mac OS X with IPv6 enabled. If you haven't got IPv6 yet, use miredo.
It works automagically on Windows Vista and Windows 7 thanks to the built-in Teredo IPv6. On Windows XP you have to activate Teredo IPv6 yourself.

If you don't use SABnzbd but an other news downloader, you might need the IPv6 address of reader.ipv6.xsnews.nl, which is: 2a02:d28:5580:c::101:5

Happy downloading!

SABnzbd's webinterface on IPv6

The great NZB downloader SABnzbd is fully IPv6 enabled:

• you can download from IPv6 newsservers, like new.ipv6.eweka.nl and newszilla6.xs4all.nl. This feature is enabled by default.
  
• you can access SABnzbd's webinterface over IPv6. See instruction below.
  

Here's how to make SABnzbd's webinterface accessable over IPv6: go to http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/config/general/ . Find this part:

SABnzbd Host:
Host SABnzbd should listen on.

There fill out:

::

Then click save and restart SABnzbd. You can now access SABnzbd over it's private and public IPv6 interface:

http://ip6-localhost:8080/sabnzbd/
http://[::1]:8080/sabnzbd/
http://[2001:8348:3a3:0:224:2cff:fe6a:66ab]:8080/sabnzbd/

BTW: as of SABnzbd 0.5.0, you don't need the 'sabnzbd' anymore in the URL, so the very cryptical http://[::1]:8080/ is also OK!